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Since barely locking horns with Shoestring<\/strong> the goat way back in April 2004, en route to completing photography on his (appropriately) no-budget comedy ASSASSINS<\/strong>, alumnus Paul Karpenko<\/strong><\/span><\/a> has not only battled the infamous UIUC mummy, Ted Johnson<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and conquered one day\u2019s hell \u2013 twice! \u2013 but also guided a reluctant warrior through a ravaged industrial landscape and thrown a political intern into a time loop she valiantly attempts to break. This last scenario is currently unfolding via Webisode as RE-ELECTION<\/strong>; the first of five new episodes premiered on Election Day<\/strong> and the next will register this coming Tuesday, November 11<\/strong>, as will our exclusive interview with Karpenko from his Los Angeles<\/strong> digs!<\/p>\n For now, please enjoy a few select shots from that crisp afternoon in the central Illinois<\/strong> heartland, seen here for the first time ever, and visit YouTube<\/strong> to cast your thumbs-up votes<\/span><\/a> for RE-ELECTION<\/strong>. You can also flash back to past Karpenko by reading this buzz magazine<\/strong><\/span> article<\/span><\/a> about him and ASSASSINS<\/strong>, a 40-minute-long \u201cHydro-Action H2Opus\u201d<\/span><\/a> co-starring Ryan Heindl<\/strong> and Coleman Balogh<\/strong> (seen in the photos with their director\/on-screen nemesis) and parodying \u201ccampus assassin\u201d games where participants hunt down their marks with water pistols. Is there a weird irony in pointing out that, amongst the dozens of Illini Film & Video<\/strong><\/span><\/a> projects created over the years, ASSASSINS<\/strong> is one of the few that simply will not die?<\/p>\n ~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: We\u2019re never ones to let good material go wasted \u2026 even if we\u2019re a few years late! Here’s a 2004 flashback of former UIUC students, including Illini Film & Video alum Paul Karpenko, making ASSASSINS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,19,18,31],"tags":[1376,84,1377,1378,1379],"class_list":["post-8561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alums-done-good","category-images-du-cu","category-student-film","category-the-old-school","tag-assassins","tag-illini-film-video","tag-paul-karpenko","tag-re-election","tag-uiuc-allerton-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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